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Delegates to the five-day meeting, 2,000 strong, ranged from Trotskyites to Maoists, from bearded antiwar pro testers to barefoot poverty workers. Their slogan : "Don't Mourn for Amer ica -Organize!" Martin Luther King urged that next year's elections be turned into a "referendum on the war" - and Pediatrician-Protester Dr. Benjamin Spock declared his willingness to head the ticket. Such ambitions were quickly doused in a power grab by 400 militant Negro delegates...
...Plow with Sound. Nostalgists still mourn for the days when most farm chores were handled by horses instead of horsepower, by men instead of machines. As Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman recently noted, they fear that the trend toward automation "will excise the soul from farming, destroy its joy, dull its satisfactions and chill the ageless intimacy between man and his land." This view notwithstanding, most farmers welcome machine-age relief from what Dr. Joseph Ackerman, managing director of Chicago's Farm Foundation, calls "farming by hunch and the Farmer's Almanac...
...photographer observes the toadies and the plotters at the bier, but is astonished to find that decent people, who were crushed by the little figure in the glass-topped casket, mourn him as well. Blindly, stupidly, they still love him-the discarded wife, the girl friend whose family he once imprisoned, the aging professor whose career he ruined. In fact, Author Mnacko's outrage goes deeper than politics: with Swiftian anger, he condemns the victim as well as the tyrant. As a writer, however, he is no Swift. The novel is at times clumsy and dated: conversations are imagined...
...ironic! One convicted murderer is executed [April 21]-the first in a year-for killing a policeman doing his duty to protect the public, and tear-stained protesters mourn, an Episcopal bishop asks that church bells be tolled to show penitence for this "legal murder," and the American Civil Liberties Union charges that this is cruel and unusual punishment. In this same period of time, how many innocent people lost their lives through the actions of criminals who feel they have the right to rape, mug, steal and kill without consideration of what happens to their victims and without acknowledging...
...STAGE 67 (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). James Mason in John Le Carre's "Dare I Weep, Dare I Mourn," a tale of an ingenious escape from East Germany. Repeat...